> > It sounds like you don't have the correct > permissions on your home > directory or the files in it. Did you look at *all* > the file > permissions, including the hidden files? As root, > do: > > ls -la /home/name_of_user > > If you see numbers in the username field then this > means that the owner > of the file doesn't match what's in /etc/passwd.
Ok, did that and I don't see any numbers listed with the user names. afaict, the perms are set exactly as they were before. > > When you readded yourself, did you specify the old > user id using the -u > flag to useradd? > > Well, no I didn't, I just copied the files over and went for it. Looks like that approach won't work though. So now it seems that all that is left is remaking all the user and group accounts by hand. ugh. Thats what I'm gonna do after i finish this email. On a side note though, i added a completely new user to test the system out. Even that account gave me the same errors. Seems mandrake doesn't like the idea of a fresh system with an already populated home directory, yech, kinda defeats the purpose of having seperate partitions. If my experience is any indicator, if you want to avoid massive errors, you gotta reformat all your partitions and then manually readd your users by hand, and *then* sync the directories from backup copies to make it work. Kind of sick actually, if I'm right and that statement is true, what the hell am I going to do when I have 3,000 users on this system and it needs a fresh install for whatever reason? Maybe mandrake isn't the best option for a server *shrug* Shouldn't there be an easier way to recover users/groups/directories in the event of a failure? Ken __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
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